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Philippines Standoff Ends Peacefully</p>
<p>MANILA, Philippines A challenge to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's leadership by disgruntled marine officers ended without violence Sunday, but signaled that efforts to oust the president likely will persist even without widespread popular support.</p>
<p>The five-hour standoff by marines began when their commander was relieved of his duties in the wake of what the government said was a foiled coup plot.</p>
<p>It left no doubt that the military has extremely restive elements that are fed up with neglect and corruption, and are susceptible to being drawn into political adventurism.</p>
<p>The freshest threat to her leadership began earlier Sunday when the head of the marines, Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda, was removed from his post. The marines have been widely rumored to have been among military units involved in the coup plot.</p>
<p>World Court to DecideGenocide Case</p>
<p>THE HAGUE, Netherlands Generals and politicians have been convicted of genocide, but the U.N.'s highest court will consider today whether a nation — in this case Serbia — can be guilty of humanity's worst crime.</p>
<p>The stakes potentially include billions of dollars and history's judgment.</p>
<p>Thirteen years after Bosnia filed the case with the International Court of Justice, its lawyers will lay out their lawsuit against Serbia and Montenegro — the successor state for the defunct Yugoslavia — charging it with a premeditated attempt to destroy Bosnia's Muslim population, in whole or part.</p>
<p>"Not since the end of the Second World War and the revelations of the horrors of Nazi Germany's 'Final Solution' has Europe witnessed the utter destruction of a people, for no other reason than they belong to a particular national ethnical, racial, and religious group as such," said the lawsuit's opening paragraph, drafted for the Bosnian government by American lawyer Francis A. Boyle.</p>
<p>It is one of the most complex and far-reaching rulings ever sought from the tribunal, also known as the world court. Arguments are scheduled to take six weeks, and it likely will be a year before the 16 judges deliver their verdict.</p>
<p>Miners' Families Want Bodies Recovered</p>
<p>SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico With no hope of finding 65 missing miners alive, a few dozen relatives waited outside a collapsed coal mine in northern Mexico on Sunday, hoping efforts to recover remains of their kin will begin soon.</p>
<p>Maria Cantu said she's come to terms with the fact that her 32-year-old son, Raul Villasana, is dead, but insisted his remains must be brought out.</p>
<p>A gas explosion Feb. 19 raised the temperature inside the Pasta de Conchos mine to 1,110 degrees and released toxic methane and carbon monoxide that gobbled up nearly all of the oxygen.</p>
<p>On Saturday, officials acknowledged there was no way the miners could have survived. </p>
<p>Kitsap Sun news services